The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas

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Summary: The Great Male Voice Returns.
Review: Jim Harrison exhausts me. In two of his three superb novellas, I had to pause after every other paragraph to allow my mind to catch up. Reading Harrison is like drinking from a fire hose. Harrison's writing has the conceptual connectivity of a Dennis Miller rant, but it is more serious, more profound, longer and always within an odd story line. Does anyone else write like this? Harrison defines the solitary, cranky, intelligent, old man. Thank goodness for another Brown Dog story sandwiched neatly in between for relief. One imagines the Farley Brothers could make quite a movie about old B.D.

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Summary: Knucklehead, Owls Don't Make Flying Noises!
Review: They hoot, but you don't hear the wings. In one of your prior novellas, you have B.D. hearing owl wingflaps. In "The Beast . . ." you make the same mistake. Get your head out of the wine cellar for a few moments and get out there and listen.

Otherwise, excellent storytelling.